Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Call for Late Breaking Papers, Position Papers, Extended Abstracts, Poster Papers with Deadline of June 2, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013




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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
  CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

                   Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013

                              ICWN'13
         The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks
                    July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

        Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them).

INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a "Late Breaking Paper", "Position Paper", or "Abstract/Poster Paper" for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books.
The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized by our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...). 4042

INDEXING OF ICWN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the ICWN proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others).
In addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.

IMPORTANT DATES:

June 2, 2013:       Submission of papers for evaluation
June 12, 2013:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 20, 2013:      Registration
July 22-25, 2013:   The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks
                    (ICWN'13)
August 10, 2013:    Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
                    (Papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
                    will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
                    will go to press soon after the conference; they will also be
                    indexed in science citation index databases.)


ICWN'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials are free to registered conference attendees - for a partial list of approved tutorials,
The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Ad hoc networks
O  Sensor Networks
O  Power management and control, low-power protocols O  Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia O  Satellite-based systems O  High altitude platforms O  GPS, location-based service and mobile devices O  Mobile agents O  Routing, multicasting, multiplexing, ...
O  Resource management, wireless QoS
O  Mobile internet
O  Wireless network architectures
O  Mobile computing
O  Wireless security
O  Modeling and simulation
O  Novel technologies that enhance wireless systems and standards O  Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth O  Wireless sensor and actuator networks O  Underwater sensor networks O  Imaging sensor networks O  Efficient and reliable MAC protocols for sensor networks O  Node placement and topology control issues O  Coding and modulation O  Multi-user detection O  Performance analysis and evaluation O  Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource management O  Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks O  Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks O  Wireless IP networks, interworking O  Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O  WAP, mobile e-commerce O  Disruption tolerant networks and applications O  Cellular networks and technologies O  Distributed algorithms for wireless networks O  Emerging technologies and related issues

O  Pervasive Systems and Ubiquitous Computing:
   - Location-dependent/personalized applications
   - Hardware support pervasive computing and communications
   - Software infrastructures for pervasive systems
   - System architectures and platforms
   - Embedded computing with applications
   - Low power, energy-aware pervasive computing
   - Smart devices, spaces and objects
   - Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
   - Middleware services and agent technologies
   - Positioning and tracking technologies
   - Integration of wired and wireless networks
   - Personal area networks
   - Intelligent devices and environments
   - Context and location awareness, context based & implicit computing
   - User interfaces and interaction models
   - Wearable computers and technologies
   - Resource management in pervasive platforms
   - Security and privacy issues for pervasive systems
   - New products, standards, tools and best practices
   - Embodied agents
   - Interactive workspace
   - Secure collaboration in uncertain environments
   - Biometric methods for pervasive computing
   - Applications and case studies
   - Emerging topics in pervasive systems
   - Ubiquitous computing:
     Novel devices, designs, deployment, evaluation, architecture,
     ambient intelligence, novel applications and emerging tools.


SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:

In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three categories:

   1. Late Breaking Papers: describe late-breaking/recent developments in
      the field. The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the following
      on the first page of your submission "ICWN: LATE BREAKING PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a formal session.

   2. Position Papers: enable discussions on emerging topics without the
      experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,
      such papers will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward
      with evidence from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.
      The maximum number of pages is 4. Please write the following on the
      first page of your submission "ICWN: POSITION PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 4 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

   3. Abstract/Poster Papers: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD
      plan or PhD prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please
      write the following on the first page of your submission
      "ICWN: ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 2 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (see above for paper categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
Submissions must be uploaded by June 2, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats. All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels/presentation).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).


GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICWN is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results.
It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences; namely, The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The Congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

The 2013 Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

An important mission of the Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The Congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The Congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the Congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

USEFUL LINKS:

Partial list of tutorials:

Partial list of keynotes:

Location of the conference:


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in the congress proceedings that ICWN is part of, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Thursday, April 11, 2013

FINAL Call for Papers (Indexed in Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, etc.) with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

          Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2013

             The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
                           WORLDCOMP'13

             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the following links for a small subset of the publications based on this Congress:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3287490/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2709251/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2999338/

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) We anticipate having between
10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 22-25, 2013. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
                   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of the congress (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:
University of Minnesota, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; North Carolina A & T State University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University of Iowa, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; and many others.
Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera Corporation; The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of World Academy of Science; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; Luna Innovations; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Manx Telecom; Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health; Leading Knowledge; OMG; Science Publications and others.


SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must be uploaded by April 20, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should
include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels/presentation).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, & STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/ Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13

o CDES'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Computer Design
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cdes13

o CGVR'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
  Reality
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cgvr13

o CSC'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/csc13

o DMIN'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Data Mining
  http://www.dmin-2013.com/

o EEE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/eee13

o ERSA'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms
  http://ersaconf.org/ersa-news/

o ESA'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/esa13

o FCS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fcs13

o FECS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fecs13

o GCA'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gca13

o GEM'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gem13

o ICAI'13:
  The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icai13

o ICOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icomp13

o ICWN'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icwn13

o IKE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ike13

o IPCV'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ipcv13

o MSV'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/msv13

o PDPTA'13:
  The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/pdpta13

o SAM'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Security and Management
  http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam13/

o SERP'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/serp13

o SWWS'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/swws13

July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at:
http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings that are currently being held as part of WORLDCOMP, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Final Call For Papers (Indexed in Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, etc.) with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'13), Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

         EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2013

                              ICWN'13
       The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks

                July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

      Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...

INDEXING:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the ICWN proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). In addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.

INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others).
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) We anticipate having between
10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...). 4042P

ICWN'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials are free to registered conference attendees - for a partial list of approved tutorials,
The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Ad hoc networks
O  Sensor Networks
O  Power management and control, low-power protocols O  Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, multimedia O  Satellite-based systems O  High altitude platforms O  GPS, location-based service and mobile devices O  Mobile agents O  Routing, multicasting, multiplexing, ...
O  Resource management, wireless QoS
O  Mobile internet
O  Wireless network architectures
O  Mobile computing
O  Wireless security
O  Modeling and simulation
O  Novel technologies that enhance wireless systems and standards O  Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth O  Wireless sensor and actuator networks O  Underwater sensor networks O  Imaging sensor networks O  Efficient and reliable MAC protocols for sensor networks O  Node placement and topology control issues O  Coding and modulation O  Multi-user detection O  Performance analysis and evaluation O  Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource management O  Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks O  Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks O  Wireless IP networks, interworking O  Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O  WAP, mobile e-commerce O  Disruption tolerant networks and applications O  Cellular networks and technologies O  Distributed algorithms for wireless networks O  Emerging technologies and related issues

O  Pervasive Systems and Ubiquitous Computing:
   - Location-dependent/personalized applications
   - Hardware support pervasive computing and communications
   - Software infrastructures for pervasive systems
   - System architectures and platforms
   - Embedded computing with applications
   - Low power, energy-aware pervasive computing
   - Smart devices, spaces and objects
   - Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
   - Middleware services and agent technologies
   - Positioning and tracking technologies
   - Integration of wired and wireless networks
   - Personal area networks
   - Intelligent devices and environments
   - Context and location awareness, context based & implicit computing
   - User interfaces and interaction models
   - Wearable computers and technologies
   - Resource management in pervasive platforms
   - Security and privacy issues for pervasive systems
   - New products, standards, tools and best practices
   - Embodied agents
   - Interactive workspace
   - Secure collaboration in uncertain environments
   - Biometric methods for pervasive computing
   - Applications and case studies
   - Emerging topics in pervasive systems
   - Ubiquitous computing:
     Novel devices, designs, deployment, evaluation, architecture,
     ambient intelligence, novel applications and emerging tools.


IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks
                   (ICWN'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in Congress proceedings that ICWN is part of, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org .
Submissions must be uploaded by April 20, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICWN) must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels/presentation).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.
The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference - online/soft versions will also be made available world-wide.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICWN is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results.
It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences; namely, The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

The 2013 Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

An important mission of the Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The Congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The Congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the Congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org